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It has been an offseason full of change for Western North Carolina football.

Mitch Myers confirmed this morning that he is the sixth new WNC coach, having replaced Ernie Hughes at Hayesville.

Myers, 60, was formerly the head coach at Cherokee (1987-1991) and Franklin (1992-1997), but has been out of the profession since then.

Myers has been teaching drivers education at the Clay County school and said that is how he took interest in the coaching position.

"There's a lot of excitement here for football right now," Myers said.

"We just want to try and hook into that and keep things going on the positive end. We need to keep things moving in the right direction."

Myers went 10-15 in two seasons at Hayesville, including a 6-8 mark in 2013.

The 2013 season ended in December and the rest of the WNC coaching coaches since then are Cherokee (Kent Briggs), East Henderson (Mac MacMillan), Mitchell (Travise Pitman), Polk County (Jamie Thompson) and Roberson (Chris Deal).

The first day of official practice for the 2014 season is Aug. 1 and teams may play their first games as soon as Aug. 22.